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tonight. i'm matt austin. >> and i'm ginger gadsden. we're going to get to that very important story for you in just a moment. but first, the chill is in the air and it's not leaving just yet. don't let this beautiful look outside fool you. it really looks nice out there. but it is cold outside. >> chief meteorologist tom sorrells joins us now to pinpoint our forecast first at 5:30. >> the sun is lying to you. it looks beautiful. if you parked your car outside, that feels great. but otherwise it does not feel great outside. freeze warning in effect tonight from gainesville to ocala to the villages all the way down through fruitland park into sumpter county. it's going to be a tough run tonight from northern lake county all the way up to flagler and all of volusia county also under the freeze warning. frost advisory for everyone else from sanford to leesburg kissimmee, cocoa beach, the cape, everyone south of the line right there is under a frost advisory.

i keep waiting for them to drop quicker. the sun is setting lower. the sky is clear. the wind is still wicked. 52 currently in leesburg. 52 in gainesville and 56 in orlando. 23-mile-an-hour winds is going to calm down. a 24-mile-an-hour wind in sanford, calming down and dropping our lows to 28 in ocala and 38 in orlando. i'll be back to pinpoint the warm-up, down the road. >> thank you, tom. danger on our streets forces a local mom to take action. she is fed up. no one is cracking down on drivers illegally passing school buses. so she came to news 6 to get results with video going back years showing those cars going around buses filled with kids. amanda castro is getting results tonight in the metro west area of orlando. >> she says her daughter was almost hit by a car while crossing the street this morning to catch her school bus.

been going on for years, drivers ignoring the stop signs. that's why she came to news 6 to get results. video shot this morning shows her daughter walking to the school bus and a car not stopping, coming very close to hitting the middle schooler. >> my daughter was right next to the car and the car just decided to go. >> she says she caught several cars on camera ignoring the school bus's flashing lights and stop signs. at the corner of metro park circle and old park lane in metro west. this video shows another driver speeding right past the bus with the lights on and stop signs out. most of the incidents she says happened in the morning. she's seen many cars drive right past the bus as students cross the street. she tells news 6 this has been happening for years. people should be aware of the laws with the stop signs on the sides of the bus and the red light and the sign comes out, you need to stop. >> but angie says they're not.

and other students' safety. this is a bus stop for local elementary, middle and high school. >> no incidents have happened to my knowledge but it's only a matter of time before something does happen. >> that's why she reechtd out to news 6 to get results. >> i'm hoping people around here see it's a problem and they need to stop. >> she hopes drivers will pay bus. >> i want change and i hope something will be done with it and hopefully it can happen. >> and we just heard back from the orange county school district. they say transportation leaders will be looking into this, now that we have brought this to their attention. we're told transportation will be working with district police and law enforcement at any possible actions. >> an investigation into a theft ring in schools has resulted in a second arrest. >> brevard county deputies say

the school board to buy personal items with district money. the 55-year-old transportation specialist dale gunther of titusville was arrested late yesterday. investigators say he stole at least $10,000 and used it to buy items for vehicles not a part of the district's fleet. another employee, a 57-year-old, was also arrested earlier this month as part of the same investigation. >> police say quick action by a witness helped them put three car thieves behind bars tonight. deputies say these three people were taking the stereo out of a car in the 1200 block of barrywood lane in st. cloud. investigators say they got to the scene as the burglary was actually taking place. a witness saw what was happening and called dispatch about some suspicious activity. all three suspects are now facing multiple charges tonight. >> covering marion county now, two people have been arrested in what deputies are calling an

more than 25,000 packs of cigarettes were stolen from a winn-dixie. investigators say the two guys you just saw earlier worked together since last october. we're told one of them worked overnight cleaning the store floors and would put packs of cigarettes into a hidden compartment inside a crate. then he would sell them to the second man, who was found with more than $2,000 worth of merchandise along with $1900 in cash. >> orlando police cracking down on drivers who are cutting it too close to people in crosswalks. it was all a part of operation best foot forward. a program police say is getting results for pedestrian safety. a recent study shows orlando ranks as one of the most dangerous cities for people crossing the street. as police warned today, failing to yield to a pedestrian can be costly. tickets start around $160. >> i think there's too many distractions in the vehicles today. people aren't alert as to

>> just so you know, we're told police in orlando have at least two more crackdowns scheduled for this year. >> hit and runs. we report on them all the time. way too much. in fact, someone is killed almost every other day in a fatal hit-and-run crash here in florida. >> he didn't even put in a phone call for help to say i just hit somebody. >> a new law was supposed to help keep this from happening. but the hit-and-run numbers are only going up. news 6 anchor lisa bell investigates why the law does not seem to be working and what could be done to help make our streets safer. that's coming up tonight at 11:00. >> we're getting new information tonight on the fast-moving zika virus. the country's leading medical experts went before congress today warning about zika expanding into a significant number of cases in the near future. the virus is spread by mosquito bites and health experts with the c.d.c. confirmed it's linked to birth defects in pregnant

16 cases have been reported in florida but several popped up in central florida over the last week. the number has blossomed to 66 cases in a number of states, with 5 added from just yesterday alone. this week, the c.d.c. has upgraded its emergency operation center to a level 1 status. freeing up hundreds more employees to work on fighting the virus. >> we're working around the clock to find out as much as we can, as quickly as we can to inform the public and to do everything that we can do to reduce the risk to pregnant women. >> as of right now, there's no vaccine for the zika virus but as of today, it's been found in more than 30 countries around the world. what makes the virus especially difficult to trace is nearly 80% of people who get zika don't show any symptoms. >> right now it's time to get a check on the roads with julie broughton. >> we're looking at a slow ride on i-4 right now. this is i-4 at conroy.

away from me, that is westbound lanes. we're looking at a decent ride eastbound. notice how slow it is on i-4 westbound, folks trying to merge on i-4 westbound from conroy, dealing with a slow ride there. as we go in closer for you, again the colors on the map indicate the traffic flow. wherever we see red, yellow or orange, we're talking about a really slow ride. i-4 eastbound slows down past orange blossom trail and up to the state road 408 interchange where average speeds drop 10 to 15 miles per hour. we keep it slow heading into winter park and picking back up toward altamonte springs. to the southwest, the doctor phillips area and the attractions, i-4 is slow in each direction.

>> thank you, julie. you have to keep your sweaters out a little while longer because the cold is sticking to us like an old piece of gum. some of us seeing some temperatures -- i don't want to make you hungry -- some seeing temperatures enough for frost last night. >> that could happen again tonight. news 6 meteorologist candace campos is joining us from the newsroom. she is pinpointing your weather in forest corners. >> matt is always talking about food. he's always hungry. >> true. >> yeah, true. we're going to pinpoint one right here. this is miranda who sent this in from forest corners. you can see the frost that's pretty much covered her windshield. she's starting to warm things up this morning. unfortunately it looks like a lot of people, especially up in the marion county area, will be dealing with a lot of frost and freeze issues as you head out tomorrow morning to work and school. let's pinpoint your forecast and break it down hour by hour. you can see by midnight tonight,

with clear skies, strong winds, making it feel even colder. look at what happens come thursday morning. 8 a.m., 34 degrees. thankfully we'll be topping off back in the 60's. >> thank you, candace. it's a pretty exciting milestone. find out what google has to celebrate today when we come back. >> plus it's a nuisance, particularly in families with kids in school. coming up next, we take you inside one woman's solution to an ongoing problem right here in central florida. >> and more than a million cars have been added to the takata recall list over airbag problems.

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on head lice. parents have complained about their kids getting it repeatedly. >> now one woman has taken matters into her own hands to get rid of the nuisance once and for all. news 6 reporter loren korn takes a look at this new business in volusia county. >> the mother of three tells me she was so stressed out dealing with the lice situation at home, she didn't want other parents to go through the same thing, so she opened up lice e.r. >> it is definitely a stress on parents. >> she knows firsthand. >> i have three daughters that all ended up with head lice and the stress that i went through was crazy. >> in january, she got certified to properly remove the lice and open up her own business called lice e.r. >> i wanted to offer something here in town that would be an option for parents to ease the stress. >> it's only the second day for the clinic to be opened. >> we've had a big response.

already. we've had some calls from school. >> tiffany was one of those calls. >> they never seem to go away. >> she says her three daughters got lice last weekend and after spending tons of money and time on products, she was thrilled to hear about the clinic. >> i was thinking, yep, this is something we need around here because everybody has it. >> the black things floating in the water are the eggs, the >> we can coach you about how to tackle it yourself. >> she says treating head lice and educating parents and schools about it is her main goal. >> it's important to help the children be at ease, stop the itching and get them back in school so they can learn. >> she says the process takes about 2 to 3 hours, depending on the length of hair. she takes calls 24 hours a day if you need advice.

clinic, visit our website at clickorlando.com, powered by news 6. >> that's a brilliant idea. i told my daughters if they get lice, i'm shaving their heads. it was just a joke. >> the takata airbag recall has expanded to include two new automakers. >> and vw and mercedes benz are issuing alerts. the company says the vehicles have airbags on the driver's side that might have defective inflators from takata. it's like this story won't end. according to the airbag manufacturer, the inflator could rupture, sending metal shrapnel through the airbag and the driver and maybe the passengers, too. models made between 2006 to 2014 are affected by this.

announced this week they're issuing recall notices on 180,000 cars and vans because of the takata airbag problems. the problem has caused at least nine deaths in the u.s. so far. the number of airbag recalls will likely expand to as many as 24 million. to find out more about the recalls associated with this, head to clickorlando.com, powered by news 6. it just keeps so hard to keep track of. >> it really is. that's what we do on our website. >> google is celebrating a big milestone today. >> today their computers got their driver's license. u.s. safety regulators officially determined the computers controlling the

in another move to get the cars out on the road, google filed a patent just yesterday that would create a driverless delivery truck, with lockers only opened by customers using a special pin code or credit card. the machines have taken over. that time is now. >> i'm not going to miss commuting. i'm going to read my newspaper on the way to work. it's going to be fantastic. >> like that. >> i'll be in the back seat, working, boom. awesome. >> we're dreaming about it. chief meteorologist tom sorrells, speaking of computers, she has a lot of them in overdrive. >> none of them are 16. freeze warning to the north, all over central florida. half of lake, northern lake counties are in this warning. flagler and all of volusia county under a freeze warning until 9 a.m. tomorrow morning. we come farther to the south

lake, all of osceola and all of brevard county. you guys have the frost advisory in effect. winds are going to calm down and it spells a lot more widespread frost tomorrow morning. 60 is the current reading in melbourne. that's warm compared to everyone else. right now in daytona beach, we're at 56 degrees. other temperatures, 52 in ocala. 50 in the villages. 52 in leesburg and in orlando, we're holding at 56, 57 in kissimmee. >> 24-hour temperature change, we're 3 degrees colder already than we were yesterday at this same time. in the villages, you're already 7 degrees colder than yesterday. wind speeds are still pushing it. 23-mile-an-hour wind in orlando. 24 in cocoa beach. i promise you as the night wears on, that will change. here's my visible satellite. all the clouds are down south and peeling this way. so winds are going to die down.

colder air is pushing in, spelling for a chilly night. the hour-by-hour forecast for tonight into tomorrow, not all. we're talking more than 24 hours from now, a little bit of cloud cover will be building in from the north. friday brings in more clouds. saturday we make it way back up into the 70's. for tonight, here are the overnight lows. i'm calling the low in ocala tonight 28. 31 will do it in the villages. freeze warning in effect for all of flagler and volusia counties. daytona beach, i'm seeing 33 for you and 32 in palm coast. the official forecast in orlando, frost advisory, wind from the west 5 to 15. the overnight low is 38. here is tomorrow. first thing in the morning, temperature reading holding at 40. by noon tomorrow, 56. there's the daytime high of 64. the normal high is 73. we're still way down below where we ought to be. at least it's sunny and warmer. the wind will calm so we'll feel

high tomorrow, 64. winds dying out. overnight low, 46. then we warm up on friday. daytime high's 73. sunday, in time for valentine's day, a little chill in the air. 65 is the daytime high. the low is 52. monday, tuesday, wednesday of next week, all look amazing. >> it's like perfect weather for a week. that's why we live here. >> especially after what we've been through this week, the freeze problems and the frost. >> thanks, tom. >> a lot of people place seemingly harmless bets on the outcome of the super bowl. >> what happens when all of that goes wrong? coming up at 5:30, see what happens when one football fan bet against the wrong team. >> and one neighborhood is dealing with a stinky mess. they say the new garbage truck left behind this trail.

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the seas is making its way to port in new jersey. this was the ship on its way to port canaveral earlier this week but got caught in a nasty storm that was packing near hurricane-force winds. it collapsed part of the ceiling. those folks are going to be so happy to get to port. >> did you make a friendly wager on the big game this past sunday? >> if you did, you may have learned every bet comes with a certain element of risk. a houston radio show producer learns this the hard way. he has a unique tattoo of a houston icon. he got a tattoo of the gallery furniture owner's face on his leg. this is an odd bet. if he had won, he would have gotten living room furniture. that's a nice picture, yeah,

that's a conversation starter. the producer already has another familiar face tattooed on him. that is on his rear end apparently as a result of a bet. >> what? >> the lesson to all you kids out there, don't make these sorts of wagers, okay? you're stuck with the tattoo the rest of your life. the furniture will be long gone but you're always go to have this thing on your butt. don't do it. >> you're always going to have this thing on your butt. >> even though mattress mac won the bet, he still gave the producer a living room set. >> he's going to pay for that tattoo removal? it doesn't say he has to keep it. >> lisa bell is here with what we're working on for the news at 6:00. >> at 6:00, getting results for the homeless. all these blankets and coats are

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